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Poplar Bluff Municipal Library (Poplar Bluff Public Library) is a historic library building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1936, and is a one-story, Colonial Revival style brick building. It sits on a full basement and has a gable roof. [2]: 5 It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1]
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Missouri provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Missouri, where 33 public libraries were built from 26 grants (totaling $1,502,500) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1899 to 1917. In addition, academic libraries were built at 2 institutions (totaling ...
The Missouri Library Commission contacted Chapter FH of the P.E.O. Sisterhood about starting a public library in Ferguson [4] and the Kirkwood Public Library provided guidance and gifted fifty books. [4] The library opened on June 1, 1930, at the corner of Carson and Florissant Road with 575 books in its collection. [4]
The Columbia Public Library (CPL) is the public library of Columbia, Missouri, and was established as a tax-funded public library in the town in 1922. [2] It is the headquarters of the Daniel Boone Regional Library system (DBRL), which serves the city of Columbia, (the county seat of surrounding Boone County), and the further surrounding adjacent Howard and Callaway Counties / areas.
The Atchison County Library [2] is a public library with three locations in Atchison County, Missouri. The Central Library is located in Rock Port, Missouri , the Fairfax branch in Fairfax, Missouri and the Tarkio branch in Tarkio, Missouri .
The final bid was $9,071, which required further grant money from Carnegie, bringing the total donation to $12,500. The library opened to the public on March 1, 1906. [4] The library basement housed city hall from 1939 until the mid-1960s, and then the University of Missouri Extension Office. [5] The building continues to serve as a library in ...
Sedalia Public Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri. It was designed by the architecture firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge and built in 1900. It is a two-story, cruciform plan, Greek Revival style wood and steel frame building with brick walls and limestone and terra cotta facing.
It turns out that this name migrated to Missouri from the Saint Lawrence Valley and initially meant "the mill", for "Vide-Poche" was documented to be a nickname in New France for the mill and the original population in the area mainly was from Canada. This St. Louis Vide Poche is indeed known to have harbored a mill in its very beginning.